Carp and the Guardian Letters
Between 1989 and 1991 Canadian journalists and researchers received anonymous letters signed "Guardian", claiming that an alien craft had crashed near the village of Carp outside Ottawa and that the government was running a secret programme. Maps and documents came with them, and later a videotape of a glowing object filmed at night. The researcher Bob Oechsler and others checked everything checkable: the documents proved to be assembled from genuine letterheads, and the video showed a lit object in a field. In the 1990s the authorship was attributed to a local man; there was never a full confession. The story survives as a model of how a well-assembled hoax lives for years.
McMinnville and the Trent Photographs
On 11 May 1950 Evelyn Trent went out to feed the rabbits on a farm outside this Oregon town and saw a metallic disc drifting slowly over the field. She called her husband, who managed two photographs before the object went off to the west. The Trents did not try to profit: they finished the roll, left it at the local chemist, and the pictures reached a newspaper through a banker they knew. The frames have been argued over for decades — a 1969 analysis for the Condon Committee found no sign of a suspension or a montage, while later work points to a possible model hung on a wire under the power lines. They remain the two most famous photographs in the subject, and the argument has not closed.
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